Why the Mavs are a good fit for Luka Doncic

I think from the standpoint of Dallas, this is just a perfect fit. The big winner in this is Luka Doncic himself because he went to exactly the right team for him.

Rick Carlisle is a magician in terms of his ability to build offenses around the skill set of the players he has. I mean to the extent that he made Yogi Ferrell completely unguardable for stretches of a season.

So this is something where I think you're going to see Luka really flourish. I think the fact that Dirk Nowitzki is there, somebody that he absolutely idolizes, is a real plus. I think as Dallas heads into the offseason, you're going to see them do some things to add more veteran presence and maybe some younger veteran presence, because it is difficult to support a 19-year-old kid with veterans that are 40, they could literally be his father. So I think you're going to see them add a few different veteran names, guys that might be more contemporaries for Luka.

He's going to get to slide over and play mostly attacking two. He can slash, he'll be able to get to the rim and very much like, we talked about this last year a lot with Toronto, when Fred VanVleet in the fourth quarter initiates the first action on one side, they go swing-swing and then Kyle [Lowry] or DeMar [DeRozan] get to attack against the defense that's already in rotation. That's a beautiful thing.

Well for Dennis Smith Jr. that's going to make the game a lot easier, because his weakness right now is setting people up and making them better and now he doesn't have to worry about that as much.

Luka has a early James Harden--he's not this guy, so when I say it don't get at me on Twitter and say that I said 'He's James Harden.' He's not James Harden. He's early James Harden, but he's really really good in much the same way that James is. At not changing his pace, you can't rush him, you can't speed him up and he's big. He's even bigger than James. He's going to be able to get in the middle of a pick-and-roll and raise up over the defense and throw it to either corner and from that spot, guys like Harrison Barnes and Dennis Smith Jr. are going to be able to attack much more easily than they have in the past and I just think it's a beautiful fit.